(a) The Commissioner of Corrections shall manage, direct,
control and govern the following penal or correctional institutions
and any others placed under his or her jurisdiction or control:

Mount Olive Correctional Complex;

Huttonsville Correctional Center;

Anthony Correctional Center;

Denmar Correctional Center;

Pruntytown Correctional Center;

Northern West Virginia Correctional Center;

St. Marys Correctional Center;

Lakin Correctional Center;

Ohio County Correctional Center;

Beckley Correctional Center;

Martinsburg Correctional Center;

Salem Correctional Center; and

Parkersburg Correctional Center.

(b) The Commissioner of Corrections may contract with the
County Commission of McDowell County to house and incarcerate
inmates at the Stevens Correctional Center consistent with all requirements and standards governing the Division of Corrections.

(c) Jurisdiction of and title to the West Virginia Children's
Home at Elkins are hereby transferred to the Department of Health
and Human Resources, which is the custodian of all deeds and other
muniments of title to the property and shall record those that are
susceptible of recordation to be recorded in the proper offices.
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the
West Virginia Children's Home shall be managed and controlled by a
superintendent appointed by the Commissioner of the Division of
Human Services.

(d) The Commissioner of Corrections may establish work and
study release units as extensions and subsidiaries of those state
institutions under his or her control and authority. The work and
study release units may be coeducational and shall be managed,
directed and controlled as provided in this article.

(e) (1) The commissioner may contract with nonprofit or
charitable entities including, but not limited to, nonprofit
community mental health clinics, operating half-way houses or
transitional housing facilities for the placement of persons in the
commissioner's custody, whether confined or under parole
supervision, as long as such facilities meet standards and criteria
established by the commissioner.

(2) (A) The Commissioner of Corrections may direct that a
person who is placed in a half-way house or transitional housing
facility under this section make reimbursement to the state in the amount of a reasonable sum calculated to offset all or part of the
costs of the placement.

(B) Prior to ordering the person to make the reimbursement,
the commissioner, or his or her designee, shall consider the
following:

(i) The person's ability to pay;

(ii) The nature and extent of the person's responsibilities to
his or her dependents, if any;

(iii) The length of probable incarceration under the court's
sentence; and

(iv) The effect, if any, that reimbursement might have on the
person's rehabilitation.

(f) The Division of Corrections shall provide the number of
persons placed in a half-way house or a transitional housing
facility pursuant to subsection (e) of this section in its report
made pursuant to section twenty, article one, chapter five of this
code, and shall describe its plans to use the authority provided
under the provisions of subsection (e) of this section in
furtherance of the duties and responsibilities imposed by this
article.

(g) Any person employed by the Office of Public Institutions
is a classified civil service employee within the limits contained
in section two, article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code.
Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2014 1st Special Session
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